What the Hell is My Brain Doing‪?‬ Julie Lamb

Happy to see you all again!

We are now in week 3 of my case study of an actual client’s journey with me to help her resolve her burnout and general dissatisfaction with life.

Last week, I walked you through the idea of a time audit so that you can really hone in on how you are spending the hours of your day.

Hopefully you were able to complete at least a baseline of that.

Did it surprise you? Did it make you think?

Hopefully it did one or both and really gave you some ideas to consider about spending your time differently.

That’s not the only reason I had you do it though.

See, what I found with Suzie and many of my clients is that when you are so overwhelmed with the stress and burnout of everything in your life, it can seem never-ending.

Doing the time audit helps should have helped you feel like it was something you could control- a quick win if you will to give you that amazing shot of Dopamine that helps reinforce the results of your journey.

When I did this exercise with Suzie, we found an unexpected trauma trigger point.

Suzie discovered that anytime she tried to rest, it brought back old feelings of when she had been told she was lazy and worthless.

She felt like she would never amount to anything even in the midst of record productivity at work and strong relationships at home.

It brought up the dreaded…. Imposter Syndrome.

Tune into today’s episode to continue on this amazing ride of healing from a real-life client!

Join me for part 3 of our series!


Important discoveries from our Time Audit.
How we uncovered and started to resolve core memories driving Suzie's Imposter Syndrome.
Using the "Ladder Thoughts" system to help process trauma.

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Welcome back my amazing people!

We are continuing this week with Part 2 of my case study of my client, “Suzie.”

When you start therapy, there is lots of information gathering so that I can understand what diagnosis is appropriate for the client.

For Suzie, she just wanted to enjoy life again and not feel like she was just going through the motions.

Suzie was a rockstar at her job and used to enjoy what she was doing but somehow lost some of that spark and steam.

She also wanted to reinforce relationships with her family and make the most of the time she had with them.

At the end of the day, she wanted to feel like a “Whole Person” again and not be burdened with this constant feeling of stress and overwhelm.

After gathering all of that data, we started to formulate a gameplan.

Now it’s important when you are going through a process of change that you think about the sustainability of the change.

So when you are introducing those changes, instead of doing tons of changes all at once, look at one key shift in your thinking and really hone in on it.

With Suzie, our plan was to look first at was necessary and what could be shifted to someone else’s responsibility.

But that was just the start…you will need to tune in to find out the rest!

Join me as we continue with:


Why therapy starts with so many questions?
Going through all of Suzie's various stress points to plan how to take control.
The underrated power of a Time Audit.

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Welcome back to all you fantastic people!

April is known as National Stress Awareness month so I wanted to do something a bit different.

As you know, we talk a lot about the brain on this show and how it reacts to the world around us.

I try to give you practical tips you can use to better manage your mind so that it does not manage you.

For this month though, I decided to do something a bit different and take you through some anonymous case studies of actual clients I have worked with and seen amazing transformations within.

So, I want to talk to you today about a client I will name Suzie.

Suzie is a professional woman performing at a high level and going places in a tough and demanding field.

In addition to her professional accolades, she is a wife and mother to a family that she loves very much and she wanted to be present for.

On paper, she had everything figured out except she felt tired, anxious and overwhelmed.

She would find that she was meeting deadlines but procrastinating and then overperforming at the last minute.

When she got home, she felt like she was not the best version of herself and found herself too drained to give what she wanted to her kids and husband.

This is where she started when she walked in my door…Listen to find how much better she is doing today after we worked together to overcome her feelings of burnout and imposter syndrome.

Join me as we discuss:


What were the symptoms that brought Suzie to come and work with me?
Suzie's concerns about handling the future of her career and family needs.
The holistic foundational steps we started working on together to get her back on the right path.

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Welcome back my amazing brain people!

We have made it past the whimsical April Fools Day!

Heaven knows my children enjoyed pranking both myself and my husband as they were home from school yesterday as part of their Easter break.

Though we have started a new month, my series on helping you understand and conquer your stress continues.

Last week we talked about one of the ways that chronic stress can affect you by examining the link between the stressed-out hippocampus and impaired decision making.

Next, we are going to look at what this does to you on an EMOTIONAL level.

At the same time that those logic and decision centers are sluggish and shrinking from your stress loads, your emotion centers spike to overdrive.

You may find yourself crying uncontrollably at seemingly minor problems.

Or perhaps you will try to mask it with manic, irrational happiness while you are secretly screaming inside.

Whatever it looks like for you, when your emotion centers are overstressed, it causes those trauma responses to flare up which then leads back to overstress in a spiraling cycle of unseen, internal stressors.

Add a few external stressors on top of that simmering inferno of internal stress and if we aren’t careful, we become a volcano of negative emotional energy.

Today we are going to talk about that cycle, assessing our stress loads and examining what coping methods work for me in my hope that it may spark some ideas for you.

Join me as we dive into:


Why am I so emotional when I am stressed?
Identifying potential internal and external stressors.
A few of my personal coping techniques I use to bring some stability back to my emotions.

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The year is flying by way too fast my friends!

Spring is OFFICIALLY in the air along with copious amounts of pollen if you are in the South.

And just as mother nature is going to continually stress our sinuses for the next few months, I am going to continue our series we started last week talking about what stress does to our brain.

Did you know that stress physically alters your brain?

The stress hormones that your body releases named cortisol actually shrinks the hippocampus.

Why is that important you may ask?

Well, the hippocampus is responsible for two critical functions in your day-to-day life namely decision making and short-term memory.

This can lead to a cascade of stress where small decisions like what to have for dinner or what to wear for an occasion feel like huge life-altering decisions.

This is also why you start feeling like you are having more “brain farts” because again, that short-term memory is impaired.

When these become chronic, it leads to that dreaded burnout that you hear me talk so much about.

All is not lost though; today’s episode is dedicated to giving you some relief and help on this front.

We will go through some of the beginning steps that I take with my clients to help fight these chronic stressors.

This will include some real-world tools to employ at work to control the stress and some ways to relieve the stress after work.

And finally, I will give you the knowledge and awareness you need to recognize if you need some deeper help in a professional setting to control this aspect of your life.

Join me as we dive into:


The physiological effects of stress on the brain.
Recognizing the signs & symptoms of chronic stress.
Coping techniques you can start employing today to begin managing your stress.

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Welcome back to my truly fantastic podcast listeners.

I want to be up front- today might be a bit heavier so if you need to take this episode in pieces, that’s perfectly ok.

Many of my clients lately have been coming to me with a common problem.

And that is trauma.

With that trauma will come what are known as “trauma responses” which are mechanism built into the brain to help us cope and protect us from that excess trauma.

So often, the trauma is caused by some form of stress.

Stress as we have discussed before, comes in many varieties.

There might be work stress, relationship stress, financial stress, parenting stress- there are MANY different kinds and sources of stress.

Now the brain is incredibly resilient and has very strong mechanisms for dealing with stress from maybe one or two sources.

The problems start to arise when we have seemingly innumerable sources of stress, our stress management system becomes overstimulated and overwhelmed.

If we aren’t careful, our brain becomes over focused on stress and can cause our emotions and reality to feel out of control.

It’s a broad discussion with many facets and I am breaking this up in 2 parts.

This week we are going to focus on the physiology of stress and types of trauma responses to that stress.

Join me as we dive into:


Why am I feeling overwhelmed all the time?
How does the brain physically react to stress?
What types of trauma responses and symptoms do I need to watch for?

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